Sanguinet

Sanguinet
Sanguinet
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region  Sanguinet
Coordinates: 44°29′06″N 1°04′23″W / 44.485°N 1.0731°W / 44.485; -1.0731Coordinates: 44°29′06″N 1°04′23″W / 44.485°N 1.0731°W / 44.485; -1.0731
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Landes
Arrondissement	Mont-de-Marsan
Canton	Parentis-en-Born
Intercommunality	Grands Lacs
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Fabien Lainé
Area1	81.43 km2 (31.44 sq mi)
Population (2013)2	3,605
• Density	44/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	40287 /40460
Elevation	20–45 m (66–148 ft) (avg. 25 m or 82 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sanguinet (Sanguinet in Occitan) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France, situated next to Étang de Cazaux et de Sanguinet.

The commune is situated in the north of the department of Landes. The river Gorgue passes through the village and this river is the source of the lake. It would have originally flowed into the Atlantic Ocean, but the mouth of the river was blocked over the centuries by sand dunes on the coast and thus creating the lake and many others along Landes' Atlantic Coast. The lake has covered previous sitings of a town many centuries ago.

Sanguinet is twinned with town of Neyland in Pembrokeshire, Wales.